Join Rev. Karen Hutt online at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 21 for a Winter Solstice Gathering, adapted this year for Zoom. We will honor the darkness of the longest night and rejoice in the returning of the sun with solstice heritage and wisdom, chants, and music.

This Solstice Celebration will be offered instead of Wednesday Meditation this week.

Join Us Online– 7 p.m.

(webinar ID: 842 6422 6494). To join by phone (audio only), dial 1-312-626-6799 and enter the webinar ID.

Image: CC BY-NC 2.0 Kristin Marie Enns-Kavanagh

This Sunday, December 19, join us as we enter into the heart of this question: what does Unitarian Universalism have to say when it all hits the fan? How can our faith and the commitments we hold in common help us to hold together when it all feels like it’s falling apart?

ORDER OF SERVICE

Offering: (give here) or text firstuniv to 73256. You’ll receive a link to a secure form where you can enter your information. Select the “Offering Plate” fund from the dropdown menu.

Care Companions – in person, after each service
We know that worship can take us into deep and surprising places. If you find yourself needing to talk with someone about what is stirring for you after worship, please speak with one of our care companions in a confidential zoom room after the service. This is how we care for one another.

First Step – in person, immediately after each service
Facilitated by one of our members, First Step is a brief, casual orientation to Unitarian Universalism and First Universalist Church. During this 40-minute class, participants will learn about the foundations of our faith tradition and opportunities to get involved. If you attend First Step, please fill out the Visitor Connect form so we can follow up with you! Thank you!

First Step meets in person every first and third Sunday of the month after each service- roughly 10:05 a.m. and 12:05 p.m. On the first Sunday of the month, there’s an option to join via zoom after the second service- roughly 12:05 p.m. If you join us in person, look for the facilitator holding a “First Step Meets Here” sign at the front of the sanctuary after the worship services. We look forward to welcoming you!

We invite you into a simple space of meditation, silence, poetry, song, and shared company. Come, tend to your spirit each Wednesday evening by joining us for this brief (~15–30 minute) midweek time of meditation and connection. All are welcome, and no experience is needed.
Wednesday meditation is offered online only.

Connect to the livestream here – 7 p.m.

Webinar ID: 117-312-320.
Dial in: 1-312-626-6799 and enter the webinar ID.

Image: CC BY-NC 2.0 Kristin Marie Enns-Kavanagh

In these tender times, we turn to our communities to help us hold it all. This Sunday, Lena K. Gardner, Executive Director of Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU), will join Rev. Jen Crow and Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout in leading our service as we practice being and building the world we dream about.

ORDER OF SERVICE

Offering: (give here) or text firstuniv to 73256. You’ll receive a link to a secure form where you can enter your information. Select the “Offering Plate” fund from the dropdown menu.

Care Companions – in person, after each service
We know that worship can take us into deep and surprising places. If you find yourself needing to talk with someone about what is stirring for you after worship, please speak with one of our care companions in a confidential zoom room after the service. This is how we care for one another.

First Sunday Meditation Group- rescheduled from December 5; meets in the Meditation Room and on zoom at 12:15 p.m.
Join this monthly congregant-led group for silent meditation. After 20 minutes of sitting together in silence, we will share experiences from our spiritual practices. We will begin our gathering at 12:15 p.m. to provide time to share our lives with one another. Meditation will start at 12:30 p.m. We will meet on zoom and in the Meditation Room just off of the sanctuary.

Join Aimee K. Bryant this evening at 7 p.m. for our weekly Wednesday meditation. Aimee will again lead a silent meditation that begins with the Buddhist chant “Suffusion of the Divine Abidings” and concludes with the song “Breathing in, Breathing out.”

We invite you into a simple space of meditation, silence, poetry, song, and shared company. Come, tend to your spirit by joining us for this brief (~15–30 minute) midweek time of meditation and connection. All are welcome, and no experience is needed.

Wednesday meditation is offered online only.

Connect to the livestream here – 7 p.m.

Webinar ID: 117-312-320.
Dial in: 1-312-626-6799 and enter the webinar ID.

Image: CC BY-NC 2.0 Kristin Marie Enns-Kavanagh

As we turn into the longest nights of the year, what commitments will shine like stars, helping us navigate through these troubling times? What if we aimed to keep our hearts soft, our hands open, and our boundaries clear? Together we’ll explore how these ways of being might help us live in alignment with our Universalist faith in the spirit of love and hope.

Join us for worship in person at 9 a.m. or in person and online at 11 a.m. this Sunday, December 5. Worship will include singing, prayer and meditation, and considering our December worship theme, “It’s Always Now.”

ORDER OF SERVICE

Offering: (give here) or text firstuniv to 73256. You’ll receive a link to a secure form where you can enter your information. Select the “Offering Plate” fund from the dropdown menu.

Care Companions – in person, after each service
We know that worship can take us into deep and surprising places. If you find yourself needing to talk with someone about what is stirring for you after worship, please speak with one of our care companions in a confidential zoom room after the service. This is how we care for one another.

First Step – in person, immediately after each service (option to join via zoom after second service on the first Sunday of the month)

Facilitated by one of our members, First Step is a brief, casual orientation to Unitarian Universalism and First Universalist Church. During this 40-minute class, participants will learn about the foundations of our faith tradition and opportunities to get involved. If you attend First Step, please fill out the Visitor Connect form so we can follow up with you! Thank you!

First Step meets in person every first and third Sunday of the month after each service- roughly 10:05 a.m. and 12:05 p.m. On the first Sunday of the month, there’s an option to join via zoom after the second service- roughly 12:05 p.m. If you join us in person, look for the facilitator holding a “First Step Meets Here” sign at the front of the sanctuary after the worship services. We look forward to welcoming you!

Join Aimee K. Bryant this evening at 7 p.m. for our weekly Wednesday meditation. Aimee will lead a silent meditation that begins with a Buddhist chant “Suffusion of the Divine Abidings” and concludes with the song “Breathing in, Breathing out.”

We encourage you to tend to your spirit in community during this brief midweek time of meditation. All are welcome, and no experience is needed.

While Sunday services have resumed in person, Wednesday meditation continues to be offered online only.

Connect to the livestream here – 7 p.m.

Webinar ID: 117-312-320.
Dial in: 1-312-626-6799 and enter the webinar ID.

Join Rev. Jen Crow, Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout, Isabel Quast, Franco Holder and Aimee K. Bryant on Sunday, Nov. 28 for an intergenerational service of story and song as we invite each other into the spiritual practices of giving and receiving and growing. Come find out more about Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism and our annual Holiday Giving project, and leave lifted up by our collective power that comes together when each of us shares what we can.

ORDER OF SERVICE

Offering: (give here) or text firstuniv to 73256. You’ll receive a link to a secure form where you can enter your information. Select the “Offering Plate” fund from the dropdown menu.

Care Companions – in person, after each service
We know that worship can take us into deep and surprising places. If you find yourself needing to talk with someone about what is stirring for you after worship, please speak with one of our care companions in a confidential zoom room after the service. This is how we care for one another.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have to cancel this evening’s Wednesday Meditation with Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout.

We invite you to consider watching or re-watching the November 17 Meditation or November 10 Meditation this evening if it is what your spirit needs, especially as we head into a long holiday weekend.

We look forward to welcoming you into our virtual meditative space next week and in weeks ahead!

This Sunday, in person at 9 & 11 a.m. and online at 11 a.m., we will celebrate the miracle that is at the center of the larger cycle of life. We will welcome and name and dedicate ourselves to the care of nine children in our Child Dedication Ritual – and as we bear sacred witness to these unfolding lives, it is our hope we will see ourselves and each other anew. Each of us born whole and holy and worthy. Each of us important and ordinary and unique. Each of us in need of the larger community of this earth and this church to hold us in rhythm, each with the other.

Order of Service

Offering: (give here) or text firstuniv to 73256. You’ll receive a link to a secure form where you can enter your information. Select the “Offering Plate” fund from the dropdown menu.

Care Companions – in person, after each service
We know that worship can take us into deep and surprising places. If you find yourself needing to talk with someone about what is stirring for you after worship, please speak with one of our care companions in a confidential zoom room after the service. This is how we care for one another.

First Step – in person, immediately after each service
Facilitated by one of our members, First Step is a brief, casual orientation to Unitarian Universalism and First Universalist Church. During this 40-minute class, participants will learn about the foundations of our faith tradition and opportunities to get involved. If you attend First Step, please fill out the Visitor Connect form so we can follow up with you! Thank you!

First Step meets in person every first and third Sunday of the month after each service- roughly 10:05 a.m. and 12:05 p.m. On the first Sunday of the month, there’s an option to join via zoom after the second service- roughly 12:05 p.m. If you join us in person, look for the facilitator holding a “First Step Meets Here” sign at the front of the sanctuary after the worship services. We look forward to welcoming you!